2023 GRANTS
We have awarded $3,100 in grants for 2023 to a total of nine recipients! The criteria for awarding project grant money includes community value and involvement in horticulture to make a difference, educational value where the funding makes a significant contribution, displays realistic goals and objectives, as well as a maintenance schedule, documents the project for GMGA and the community that instructs and informs so that others may benefit from the work funded and, utilizes as many Master Gardeners as possible.
Below is a synopsis of each grant, the GMGA Master Gardener Project Manager, the amount, and the project description.
Grant Awarded
$350
Cobb County (Kate Mason)
McFaarlane Nature Park – Refurbishment and updating of Nectar Garden area
Cobb County (Judith Richards)
Center for Children & Young Adults. To purchase supplies for the raised beds in a continued effort to work with at risk homeless youth who have been abandoned
Grant Awarded
$350
Grant Awarded
$350
Clarke County (John Aitkens)
Purchase and install a Purple Martin House in the Demonstration Garden and Teaching Garden including signage and photos
Bibb County (Rebecca Gay)
Purchase native plants for the Native Plant Garden & Monarch Waystation managed in cooperation with the Fringed Campion Chapter of the Georgia Native Society
Grant Awarded
$350
Grant Awarded
$350
Elbert County (Pam Allgood)
Establish a pollinator garden in the downtown square near several historical sites as part of the keep Elbert County beautiful project
Hall County (Toby Blackwell)
Purchase materials to build a second Hoop House for our Jr. Master Gardener program at Myers Elementary along with volunteers from the Kiwanis Club and Home Depot
Grant Awarded
$350
Grant Awarded
$350
Bartow County (Carol Ferguson)
Beautification and education of the residents of a senior community. Seniors will be shown what to plant and maintenance
Bartow County (Lynn Frye)
Funds to be used to help with the purchase of a more permanent storage shed for tools and material used by the school gardens
Grant Awarded
$350
Grant Awarded
$350
Gwinnett County (Marilyn Whitmer)
Expansion of a STEM High School to provide more food to the local food bank and provide more pollinators